of the uranium stockpile. we're live at the white house with more on the progress. and conan o'brien lands on his feet. he'll return to late night in the fall hosting a talk show on tbs. the details of conan's big move to basic cable just ahead. then, of course, as he does every day, the blog is up and running. join the live conversation right now. we would like to hear from you about anything in the news. just go to cnn.com/amfix and we'll be reading your comments. as we talked about this morning coming out from consumer reports, don't buy the new lexus gx 460. it came as an urgent warning this morning. >> from consumer reports magazine. they're branding the luxury suv a safety risk. it's been nearly a decade since they evaluated any vehicle this poorly. yet another black eye for toyota. >> that's right. >> it, of course, is the parent company. >> this is a rare and very direct warning for buyers and owners of the lexus gx 460.

about 5,000 cars have been sold. consumer reports says do not buy this car. they found significant and severe rollover risk during turns. they do all of these controlled testings, four different drivers found the same problem. they got another vehicle, found the same problem on this one. they say it is not isolated. it is a problem with the electronic stability control system. it manages the brakes and the steering together. so if you're going up an off ramp and there is some sort of an obstacle, you turn quickly, there could be a real rollover risk for people with this car. if you have this car, they say be very careful on any on ramps or off ramps because they're very concerned about the stability of the vehicle in those circumstances. take it to your toyota dealer and demand a fix. if you don't own this car and thinking about it, consumer reports in a very rare warning saying do not buy this car.

toyota spokesman not commenting on this report. again this is brand new. >> what do you do if you take it to the dealer and say, listen, we have no guidance, no warnings from toyota that there's any problem with this. >> consumer reports is saying you have to demand and take it in that they demand they address this. this is the electronic stability control system. we don't know what the fix could be. but these are the nonprofit consumer reports highly respected doing their own testing on this vehicle. they say they have found a very serious problem. >> again, that is the 2010 lexus gx 460. >> this is the newest model. they did not have the concerns with the 2009? >> no. the car had been -- has been redone and redesigned in the past year. they do not have these concerns for prior models. so very good point. >> christine, thanks so much. we'll be talking about this throughout the morning. >> at 6:30, we're breaking it down with the managing editor for "consumer reports cars" and

also neal boudette. >> securing the bomb, world leaders meeting for day two of a nuclear summit addressing the biggest single threat to global security, nuclear terrorism. one positive development, key talks between president obama and chinese prest tau that could decide how the world ends up dealing with iran. our suzanne malveaux is live at the white house with us this morning. significant development yesterday. the president hoping for more today. >> reporter: they just had the welcoming dinner last night. they haven't even had the opening session. already there are signs of optimism and positive developments coming out of this gathering of world leaders. president obama is meeting on the sidelines with some of these leaders, at least ten of them or so. he was quite optimistic when asked how things are going. heed is he does expect some concrete results to come out of these past couple of days here. and one of the things that we

saw yesterday was a breakthrough, if you will, from one of the former soviet republics, that is the country of ukraine in terms of how they are going to handle their nuclear materials. take a listen to robert gibbs. >> ukraine announced a landmark decision to get rid of all of its stockpile of highly enrichedure aenriched u uranium by the next summit in 2012. they intend to remove a substantial amount of the stocks this year. ukraine will convert the civil nuclear search facilities to operate with low enriched uranium fuel. >> reporter: john, you may recall ukraine in 1994 decided it would get rid of the nuclear weapons that it inherited from the soviet union. that was considered a real breakthrough. this is also moving forward. we also heard from the leader of canada, stephen harper. he talked about the fact that canada is going to send the nuclear materials over to the united states so that it would

be secure. that is going to happen by the year of 2018. and then as you had mentioned, there was a very important meeting that we were all looking out for, that is president obama and china's leader hu jintao. they came away from that meeting, walked away, both of their aides saying they will talk about the potential, potential sanctioning of iran for not complying with the nuclear laws international law. that is something that is different here. now, john, i don't want to overstate it. this is not a breakthrough, per se. but we're not hearing from china saying we're going to block the sanctions or veto the sanctions which they could as a permanent member of the u.n. security council. john? >> on that point, how far is it between china being at the table to talk about it and actually signing on to sanctions? >> reporter: well, right now, what's happening is it is softer language. they're saying that they're willing to move forward. we know that they have those meetings that are going to take

place in new york within a month or so. that's when they're going to sit in earnest and talk about the possibility of sanctions here. so we don't want to overstate this here. but it certainly is less of a defiant stance that we've seen from china in the past. >> suzanne malveaux live for us at the white house this morning. thanks so much. coming up at 7:30, we're going to be speaking with david albright. he is a former united nations weapons inspector. he has a new book out about the black market for nukes. he'll talk to us about the nuclear summit and new information about how diligently al qaeda is trying to get its hands on a nuclear weapon. >> it will be an interesting conversation. also new morning, police in tennessee say this they have not been able to talk with torre hanson, she's the woman who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to russia. the local sheriff says that woman's attorney told them she will not talk unless a charge is filed. an adoption agency has been checking on the family since at

dopgs says they have not been able to contact hanson. ben roethlisberger will not face criminal charges in an alleged sexual assault at a georgia nightclub. a judge says there was not enough evidence to prosecute and that allegations by a college student that roethlisberger attacked her could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. he may still face punishment by the national football league. time-outs or spanking? a study of nearly lly 2500 kids found that kids that were spanked were likely to be defiant, have temper tantrums and hit other kids by the time they turn 5. evidence showing stronger than ever against corporal punishment. coming up at 7:00, the co-author of the study to explain why spanking can lead to other problems as well. we'll be talking with this topic with our expert catherine taylor. if you have a question for her or want to make a comment, join

cnn dot k cnn.com/amfix. three quarters of people interviewed about it in 2005 believe that spanking is an acceptable form of punishment. >> sure. there are other studies out there, though, that suggest that constant fear of being spanked floods a child with stress hormones. so a lot of evidence to talk about this morning. we'll do that later on. let's get a quick check of this morning's weather headlines. >> so that explains it. >> there you go. >> why i'm so messed up. >> that's why we see you twitch every once in a while. >> my rear is still a little sore from my childhood days. good morning. listen. a couple showers across parts of the northeast. trying to sneak into the i-9 acorridor. knoll having a great deal of success. cleveland, ohio, seeing heavy rain right now as is pittsburgh. but maybe some sprinkles across the northeast. the real action is out west with this big trough against the low

elevation -- high elevation snow. and winds gusting over 50 miles per hour in parts of utah yesterday. they will rip across the front range today. but east of the mississippi, for the most part, we're not looking all that bad. temperatures will once again be right around where they should be for this time of year, almost 80 degrees expected in atlanta. all right, guys, we'll see new about 30 minutes. no spanking from the news center. >> you take care of that rear. >> i'm icing it down. >> thanks, rob. still to come on the most news in the morning, conan o'brien is returning to television. we're going to tell you all about the deal that's going to bring him back to late night cable. you can say a lot more on cable. a we don't go lower than $130.ts a room tonight for 65 dollars. big deal, persuade him. okay. $65 for tonight.

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conan o'brien is going to return to tbs. >> that's right. as we know, he got the boot from t"the tonight show." they wanted to move the time slot. he said no. leno is back. there is a lot of speculation since. >> that's right. he's been on twitter a lot in the meantime. good morning. you know, there was a lot of speculation that conan would end up at fox. but instead he's going to cable as john mentioned in a deal that really surprised a lot of people. the show, as he mentioned, will be on tbs, turner broadcasting. the same company that owns cnn. the show is still unnamed. it will launch in november at 11:00 p.m. four days a week. monday through thursday. not a bad deal. conan will remain in los angeles and own the show, too. that ownership stake is believed to be a big part of what sealed the deal. but conan on cable after years on a broadcast network? conan even joked about it in his statement saying, "in three months i've gone from network

television to twitter to performing live in theaters and now i'm headed to basic cable. my plan is working perfectly." critics say conan on cable really is a perfect fit. >> i think he'll have a much more free and open style than he did. you know, "the tonight show" he had to tailor it to a mass audience. he wasn't getting. he was getting two million less than leno had gotten. i think he can say here is my core audience, i'm going to be as wild and crazy as i can be. >> speaking of jay leno, his ratings, we've learned, are up 50% over what conan was pulling. but the audience is also ten years older. average age, 56. conan really builds up a following during the epic fight with nbc. there were protests, websites. so maybe no surprise that none of the networks or competitors are commenting. but remember, it did get really ugly toward the end. as a reminder, we pulled clips of conan attacking his former

employer, nbc. take a look. >> just coming to work in the morning now has gotten really uncomfortable. ♪ morons incompetent morons ♪ ♪ these people are morons la la-di-di ♪ >> he got a $32 million settlement and agreed to stay off the air until september. >> they're waiting to launch this until november. what is the deal? >> in a word, baseball. tbs carries major league baseball and playoffs in october. so instead of having a show on preempting it for a month, they're putting the playoffs on first. they think it's really a good time to promote conan's show. remember, he'll be on at 11:00 p.m. and he's going to go

head-to-head with john stewart. both of them are courting the same viewers, right, in the same age-group. i was reading the blogs. a lot of people are saying go coco. coco is back. team coco. but, you know, other people are saying, you know, that's great. we're glad you have a deal on tbs, conan, but i already got appointment television at 11:00, john stewart on comedy central. we'll have to see how it plays out. >> it could drop people from local news. fox couldn't put him on at 11:00 because of local news. >> yeah. and some people speculated that maybe that's why conan went to tbs. he just didn't want to wait for that deal to be worked out. he'll also have ownership stake. >> that's important. >> but in the meantime, on monday he's going to launch the legally prohibited for being funny on television tour. that kicks off again on monday in eugene, oregon. >> good for him. >> good promotion for that show in november.

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beautiful sunrise this morning. 20 minutes past the hour. time for "minding your business." first we're going to talk about thousands of people unemployed. there's a bill to extend the jobless benefits. it advanced in the senate. it's unclear whether there are enough votes to pass it. republicans are saying that they're for extending benefits. but it has to be paid for by offsetting the costs with budget

cuts. >> e-mails released by a senate panel show that executives at washington unite you'll created a mortgage time bomb before the bank collapsed. the documents show the executives knew about the risks. washington mutual is the biggest bank to fail in u.s. history. former executives will be grilled by lawmakers on capitol hill. that will take place later on this morning. >> christine is "minding your busine business" right now. talk about the stock market which hit 11,000. >> i need to be talking about how banks contributed to the crisis and the dow is above 11,000 again, folks, for the first time in 18 or 19 months as the prices go up. that is the funny two-tone look of this market. you have stocks that are at new highs for this day. 1 11,005 as john pointed out. he told me it was all coming on great volume. you're absolutely right.

>> nobody has any money -- nobody lost any money. >> it is happening on both ends. but this is the cheater rally much it's interesting. there is a group called ici which is institutional investing company. they say the typical investor are putting money in funds not stocks. it may show that you people like us have not necessarily made a ton of money on this big move in the stock market. other people are still looking at the portfolio and saying, great. the stock market is above 11,000. what does that mean? i'm still down 25% in my kid's 529. we're down substantially from the peak. but this is a good ride. >> what does it mean if all the gains in the stock market are on low volume? >> it means recently that some of the real buying power may be tapering off. but what you're hearing from investment gurus, no one really wants to take any money off the table. people are saying the dow could go to 14,000.

some are saying it needs to come back 30%. we don't know until it happens. but there is this feeling that there is an economic recovery under way and that it will be eventually sustainable. and that's where the market is betting on. earnings season here. companies are going to be reporting profits. it's going to make it clearer. the official arbitor of when a recession starts and stops, they said it was too soon to say that recession is actually over. they weren't going to date it yet. and that surprised a lot of people. because, frankly, most economists think that it ended sometime last summer. >> right. >> that recession ended. now this group, you know, they always are a year or two years after start or stop of a recession they declare it. but they're not ready yet to say when this thing was over. >> washington mutual story is also fascinating. we talked a lot about the selling mortgages and packaging them and moving them on knowing that they were possibly toxic. they're going to get grilled on capitol hill in three hours today about this situation. >> and, you know, something

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welcome back to the most news in the morning. 27 minutes past the hour. recently the transportation industry's security screening procedures are under intense scrutiny by the federal government. amtrak believes it is using something effective and affordable. in our cnn security watch today, jean maserve takes a look at our detectives. >> reporter: let me introduce you to any must best friend, the next generation in explosives detection. a dog's nose sample the air many times a second. this dog sniffs it for explosives. zita is a vapor wake dog, trained to pick up the scent of explosives in the air despite crowds, cross currents and other smells in washington, d.c.'s union station. her nose can find explosives in

a huge space even though a person carrying them may have passed by as much as 15 minutes earlier. the head of amtrak's canine program compared these animals to a top athlete. >> michael jordan. the reason why i say that, michael jord san one of the best basketball players of all time. and she's dogs i put in that same category. >> reporter: only 1% or 2% of puppies from auburn university's breeding program have what it takes to be a vapor wake dog. >> they hunt and hunt and hunt and won't come back without it. >> reporter: they are introduced at an early age to slippery surfaces and a variety of environments before being sent to prisons in george, florida, and mississippi where inmates begin training the dogs to use their noses. back at the auburn facility, older dogs are conditioned on a souped up golf cart to handle the rigors of their future jobs. they recognize about a dozen explosives and could be trained to find additional ones in just a day or two. i take a backpack containing

explosives in a building to test a dog. i walk, sit, and walk some more. so now i'm going to hide this backpack full of smokeless powder. a minute later, ranger in the early stages of training, tracks the explosive scent right to the source. >> there are certain chefs that say this is this type of spice. a dog walks into it and smells this and says that is c4. >> reporter: the adjustment capitol police are starting to use the vapor wake dogs. they augmented security at sporting events and other large gathers. amtrak embraced them despite the pricetag per dog. rail carrier believes in a high risk, ever changing transit environment, the dogs have advantages over machines even though they can only work for about 90 minutes at a stretch. >> there is nothing like a dog as far as mobility, as far as how quickly it can detect explosives and take us to the source of it and the cost is

basically less than any type of technology out there. >> amazing. >> it really is. >> to see them go right up to it. >> how many times you have seen a dog sitting there and they're going -- and you never actually considered that it is sampling the air. >> exactly. pretty cool. and so cute. 30 minutes past the hour. time for our top stories. the white house says china is agreeing to work on new sanctions against iran. president obama meeting privately with china's president hu jintao yesterday on the sidelines of the nuclear summit taking place in washington. recovery crews in west virginia removed the last of the bodies from the upper big branch mine in west virginia. 29 men died last week in the worst mining zast they are country has seen in 40 years. federal investigators were waiting for all of the bodies to be recovered before heading underground to begin their investigation. and coco moving to cable after months of speculation. conan o'brien returned to late

night making that announcement that he'll be hosting a one-hour show monday through thursday, 11:00 p.m. on tbs. that is part of the time warner family. still unnamed conan show will debut in november. tbs says it has made no -- it would make no sense to launch it in september and then preem the show for four weeks because of major league baseball play-off coverage. toyota's taking it on the chin again. consumer reports putting out an urgent warning to the car buying public, don't buy the 2010 model lexus gx 460 suv. the magazine says the luxury suv poses unacceptable safety risk. it's prone to skidding out while turning posing a possible rollover hazard. what does this mean for toyota? the parent company of lexus. and what does it mean for folks that might have one at home? joining us is the managing director of consumer reports cars and from ann arbor, michigan, neal bedette.

he went out and bought one of these cars, the 2010 year. you subjected it to 50-some-odd tests. what is it that raised concerns? >> in a maneuver called a liftoff oversteer, basically, when you go into a turn and encounter something or if the turn has a big radius, when you lift off the throttle as a natural reaction, the rear end slides out. and basically that's a reaction that would happen to anyone driving. but the vehicle should not spin like. that the vehicle should not turn out like that. the electronic stability control should intervene. >> where might you encounter a condition like that? >> if you're coming off a highway on or off ramp where you slow down because the ramp sharpens the turn. or maybe if something is front of you. there's a pothole or a child running out or animal, you're going to lift off and might turn the wheel more. that's what happens. the vehicle loads the front because of momentum dropping and the rear end will naturally slide. and in this case the esc didn't intervene quickly enough. on the toyota four runner, it

did. >> all right. so neal, you are surprised to hear what they found out at consumer reports? lexus is a top luxury brand with a stellar reputation. >> yeah, sure. you know, this is just not what toyota needs right now after all the problems they've had with floor mats and sudden acceleration and even some fatal accidents. this is the kind of publicity they don't need at this time. and it is surprising. lexus is a very highly rated brand and a highly admired brand by many consumers. and this is not the kind of thing you would expect. >> as john was telling us, neal, this is not every model year. it's the only model year 2010 because it is redesigned. what does it say that lexus goes out there and redesigns a vehicle and there is a fundamental flaw like this? >> well, it suggests that vehicles are so complex now that they're very much like computers. we accept flaws in computer

operating systems or softwares that pop-up once the products are on the market and then are fixed. i suspect that that's what this is. this is a stability control system is a computer system. and there may be some glitch in the software that they can very easily update. i mean anybody who has one of these things can get it fixed. but they're very, very complex products now, much more complex than they were in the past. >> what about that, jon? is that simply this electronic stability unit and it could be updated with new software, new programming to overcome this problem? >> that's one of the benefits of esc. it allows you to play with the computers and software. in the past, the last time we had a vehicle like this, it was a mechanical fix. it was inherent in the vehicle's design. nowadays, can you go in there and toyota can evaluate the system and tweak it a little bit. >> so why did you go about testing this? how did you discover this? did you have complaints? did this occur in the real world?

did somebody say i was making a turn on an off ramp and the back end skidded out. maybe you should take a look at this? >> this is really part of our testing. we buy every vehicle we test. we put them through the 50 tests on the test track. it's a test we perform with vehicles, cars, suvs, pickup trucks, sedans and it's the one vehicle that really stood out in this. all the other 95 suvs have not exhibited any of this. >> this is purely coincidence. you haven't had any real world reports of this? >> no this isn't something we knew about or looking forward to. we had our four other engineers drive it. we borrowed a car from lexus and it exhibited the same problem. so it's something we stumbled upon. we want to make sure the public knows. >> neal, let's go back to the 30,000 foot level. this is something toyota does not need at this point. you know, we obtained documents from toyota workers, line workers in japan written back in 2006, a letter to the ceo of toyota saying you have problems here with cost cutting, corner

cutting, quality control. you're going to have big problems on your hands. there's also been some documents that surfaced in canada. lexus facing a threat in 2004 because of acceleration problems. what's going on with this company? >> well, former executives have spoken out and say they lost their way. they got to this -- the beginning of this decade and the people at the top of the company were really pushing financial performance. they wanted profits to go up. they wanted to become the world's largest automaker. and they achieved that. and i think along the way they took their eye off the ball a little bit on the meticulous attention you need to have the kind of quality toyota became known for. and they cut some corners. it's clear that over the last five, six years when the u.s. regulators brought up problems with toyota, toyota tried to minimize it, keep it down play it and keep the recalls to a minimum. >> jon, you have a do not buy

recommendation out on this car. what does lexus need to do to get back into the buy category? will you continue to take a look at this, revisit it? >> well, we're going to wait to see if lexus says, if they come up with a fix. we'll borrow another vehicle and buy another one to make sure that is something that is a running fix into the line. we'll retest the vehicle and put it through the battery test that's we do. if it does exhibit, you know, a correction factor, if it does intervene on time and keep the vehicle from sliding out, you know, potentially rolling over, then we'll give it back to the recommended status. >> the last time you issued a do not buy recommendation was in 1991 in mitsubishi montero. did they fix the problem? >> that was a mechanical problem. it wasn't the same situation. there wasn't the system you could fix immediately like that. >> all right. jonathan linkov and neal boudette, thank you. next, a look at a unique training session for marines headed to afghanistan. thanks to make them aware and better prepared from the sights,

sounds, even the smells. it's 38 minutes past the hour.

this morning afghan outrage is building after u.n. troops

fired on a civilian bus killing four people and wounding more than a dozen. >> it happened on monday. it is showing that even the smallest mistake in battle can have far reaching and deadly consequences which is why the u.s. military is training its men and women to keep civilians out of the crossfire. here's our barbara star. >> reporter: marines on patrol in an after began village, insurgents are nearby. well, not exactly. we're actually inside a old tomato packing plant at the marine corps base in camp pendleton, north carolina. this is a simulated afghan village. these marines are headed to the front lines of southern afghanistan, but first, they're getting the most realistic training the military can offer, a village of narrow lanes, mud walls and blind corners. religious calls, smoke grenades and odors as unattractively

named as they smell like dinosaur dung and gangrene are piped in. tell people what we're seeing. >> these are digital avatars that we use in shoot scenarios. marines enter the house, they can be presented with any situation. >> reporter: bullets, even though made of chalk, are flying. the marines patrol at one end, those playing the role of the inurge seni insurgents are getting ready. tensions build, marines enter the village square. villagers are upset. this kind of training is about as realistic as it can get for these marines. this is what general mcchrystal worries about, incidents of civilians being killed by military action and then it all spins out of control. what did the marines learn here? >> tactical pause, figure out what is going on. >> reporter: how to work as a team under fire. >> did you know what was going on in the back all the time? >> no.

>> yeah. you need to get past that. >> yeah. you guys have to contact. when you have contact, you have to know where the contact is coming from. >> reporter: how does everybody think it went here today? how realistic? how good is the training? >> i like it. it's good training. we get in there. you have actual role players there speaking the language. smells different. >> you know, it was hot, smelly and sandy inside that tomato packing plant. you really felt the walls begin to close in on you. it was really some of the most hyper realistic training i have ever seen. and, of course, the goal here is to make sure if the marines are going to make mistakes, if troops are going to make a mistake, make it in training before they get to afghanistan because we all see the consequences when it happens in reality. >> but barbara, the training does certainly not ensure that a mistake won't happen in the field. i would imagine they try to minimize the chance.

>> well, they do. and the real value, of course, is when it does happen in one of these training scenarios. there are senior marines there with them. and they talk it through. they talk about why did it happen? is there something they could have done to avoid it? and what do you do once the villagers, if you will, once the local civilians are in the middle of all of this and things do begin to spin out of control and there is subsequent violence and anger? how do you control it? what do you do? how do you deal with all of that? that's some of the key lessons they're trying to teach down here. john? >> amazing to get that inside look at what they're going through. barbara starr, thank you so much. >> rob is joining us with our travel forecast after the break. and in ten minutes, who knew that taking off your suit jacket could create such a stir? jeannie moos with president obama and how he really knows how to warm up a crowd.

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bring your umbrella. you're going to get rain in d.c. today. >> let's get a quick check of this morning's weather headlines across the country. good morning, rob. good morning. rain across the northeast right now. it will have a tough go. maybe sprinkles or light showers. we won't see much more than. that here it is kind of riding along a warm front sliding down towards the south and east. that moisture not a lot to it. you really to go back towards pittsburgh and cleveland, youngstown, ohio, to get to moderate to heavy rainfall. then it peters out over the appalachians. if you live on the i-95 corridor, you'll see the clouds increase and you'll see it try to rain. at times it will have some success in terms of a light shower. but the real strong system is back out towards the west, idaho falls back through salt lake city. huge trough for this time of year spinning wheels out here, lower elevation rain and higher elevation snows. and also quite a bit of wind. winds gusting over 60 in utah and this strong southerly flow

will continue that trend today. windy conditions across the front range. winds whip there up through parts of -- east of the tetons. there will be delays in d.c., detroit and cleveland. light rain. again, more so towards the west. and wind in ft. lauderdale. today it will be more in the way of wind. 80 in atlanta. high pollen counts across the southeast. 58 degrees, not quite as pretty as yesterday in new york city. but not all that bad for the most part. john? back to you. >> sounds good. thank you so much. we're getting a lot of comments on the live blog this morning. one of the topics is this new spanking study showing that kids that were spanked at age 3 tend to be more aggressive by age 5. we're going to be talking about it a little bit more today with an expert. ralph writes, "it's the parents' fault for spoiling kids. i say when a kid gets too much out of hand, put them over your knee and teach them respect." >> which is why rob is

mentioning that his behind is still sore. >> right. >> from his childhood. melon writes, good morning, cnn. kids shouldn't be spanked ever but sometimes it sure seems they deserve it. what's more standup, sarah palin or an american making comments like that? >> melon also goes on to write, responding to ralph. so when you were an adult, someone just hits you in the head? >> if you live accord together bible, we wouldn't have these conversations. duh. >> thank you for your comments. keep them coming. c cnn.com/amfix. a rare warning about a lexus suv. consumer reports saying do not buy it. what parent company toyota plans to do about it. also at 40 minutes past the hour, the cute little wet nose that could actually save your life. the dogs bred to sniff out

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president's tour selling health care. here's why. >> reporter: definitely rated pg except presidential strip. >> it is a little warm in here. >> reporter: as the campaign to sell health care heated up. >> it's a little hot, i think. >> reporter: off came the president's jacket. >> i'm going to take off my jacket. so if you want to do the same thing, it's a little hot. >> reporter: and sometimes the crowd reacts as if he's hot. there's no wlis willihistling a president. look at how happy she looks. then again, the crowd tends to cheer for anyone who takes off their jacket. watch how they reacted to joe biden. >> in my neighborhood -- in my neighborhood -- >> reporter: no one critic noted at the exact moment joe biden took off his jacket the dow dropped four points. of course no president took it off quite like bill clinton.

♪ and this jib jab video george bush's crowds -- you think it's all right if i take off my jacket. >> reporter: and to be more sedate about presidential stripping. >> thanks for coming out. i hope i didn't spill any sauce on my shirt after i had barbecue. >> reporter: remember how bush supporters went whole hog attacking president obama for taking his jacket off in the oval office and even putting his feet up on the historic desk. but obama defenders struck back with their own photos. >> same desk, different shoes. you don't recognize the guy it's george w. bush. >> reporter: and then there's the matter of what to do with the jacket. president obama either puts it on something or hands it to his aide, reggie love. along with his blackberry or -- >> you want to hold my coat? >> you answer all the tough questions, i'll hold the coat. >> reporter: just so it's just a

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>> we have a lot of big stories we're breaking. first, a warning if you're in the market for a car. "consumer reports magazine" saying the new lexus gx 460 poses a safety risk. they say the tests uncovered a problem considered so serious that the group is urging consumers not to buy this luxury suv model. they're also calling on toyota, the parent company of lexus, to fix the problem quickly. hard truth and progress as day two of a nuclear summit in washington gets under way. one country has agreed to get rid of its highly enriched uranium stockpile. we're live at the white house with the details this morning. new evidence could fire up an age-old debate. a recent study finds that toddlers who are spanked are 50% more likely to be violent by the time they're 5 years old. researchers say it's the first time that they were able to control factors like how aggressive a child was to begin with. coming up, the co-author of a study on time-outs versus spanking and whether it's too

late to turn back. our live blog, by the way, is up and running. we would love to hear from you. do you spank your kids? are you against it? what do you i tell us about it, cnn.com/amfix. we'll be reading your comments. first up, a luxury suv that may be prone to rollovers that could send toyota into another tailspin this morning. "consumer reports magazine" putting out a warning about the 2010 model lexus gx 460. >> it's been actually nine years since this nonprofit group came down so hard on a single vehicle. our christine romans is tracking it for us. another troubling factor for toyota. what are they saying about this 2010 mod snl. >> they're saying don't buy this car. and they're saying if you have it right now, be certainly careful if you're on an on ramp or exit ramp. they're concerned this car could go out of control if you need to maneuver quickly while making a turn. this is the 2010 lexus gx 460. they found -- they accidentally

found rollover risks during turns when they were testing this vehicle. four different engineers tried. then they got another vehicle to make sure that it wasn't an isolated incident with that car. they found that, indeed, this car had problems with electronic stability control. this is the computerized system that organizes and controls the brakes and the acceleration. this is a computerized system that is really cut down the number of single vehicle accidents because it's helped to right the vehicles a little bit. but there's a problem with this one. john, you did a fascinating interview last hour. you were talking to someone who says we didn't go out looking for this in particular. we found it. and then kept testing. and it was very clear that this was a car that is not safe to drive. don't buy it. very rare from consumer reports to make that designation. >> they were saying this happens under one particular condition, that's if you're coming into a curve and many people do this because the curve suddenly tightens up. you say oh, i'm going a little fast. you let your foot off the

accelerator which jon linkov is explaining, lightens up the back end and it spins out. >> they're concerned about that. they tried it on two different vehicles. they say -- i want to point out that toyota and lexus have not responded to this yet. we do not know what the company is saying quite yet about this. but what they're saying -- right, they're saying oh, boy. if you have this car, take it to the dealer and demand, demand that you want a company fix for this. >> all right. they're talking about a 2010 model. interesting. you said that the prior models have not been affected. >> that's right. >> christine, thank you. >> sure. securing the bomb, world leaders meeting in washington today. it is day two of the nuclear summit addressing what president obama calls the biggest single threat to global security. nuclear terrorism. things got off to a pretty positive start with the former soviet republic nation promising to get rid of material that al qaeda would do anything to get. also on the sidelines, there were talks between president obama and china's president

about the way that the world could end up dealing with iran. suzanne malveaux is live at the white house this morning. they're talking about sanctions and increased pressure on iran. they need china onboard. >> reporter: absolutely. and what we saw yesterday was that this summit got started with a welcoming dinner. they hadn't even started the opening session and already the president is optimistic. he is really somewhat encouraged by what he is seeing from some of the other world leaders, the side meetings that he's had with at least ten of them. one of them is a former soviet republic, that is ukraine. they announced a breakthrough agreement here. they said that they would go ahead and set aside some of the dangerous nuclear materials to be secured. i want you to take a listen to robert gibbs. here's how he put it. >> ukraine announced a landmark decision to get rid of all of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium by the time of the next nuclear security summit in 2012.

ukraine intends to remove a substantial part of the stocks this year. ukraine will convert its civil nuclear research facilities to operate with low enriched uranium fuel. >> reporter: you may recall in 1994 that ukraine decided that it would go ahead and abandon, give up the nuclear weapons that it inherited from the soviet union when the soviet union collapsed. this is also considered a significant move forward. we've heard from canada also followed suit. stephen harper, the leader of canada saying they, too, would hand over the nuclear materials to the united states to secure by 2018. and then one of those sidebar meetings that was critical that we told you to look out for yesterday, president obama and china's leader hu jintao. both of them emerging from that meeting and their aides saying that there was some progress towards working towards possibly

sanctioning iran if it doesn't cooperate with the international community in giving up the nuclear ambitions. don't want to overplay this or sell it. but, clearly, china's in a position as a permanent member of the u.n. security council, it could veto the sanctions. we're not hearing that from the chinese now. they are starting to soften their language. and so the united states officials encouraged by that. >> it's interesting. you spoke about that. there are so many other concerns going on between china and the united states with trade and concerns about the currency, et cetera. so how far it is between china being at the table to talk about it and actually agreeing eventually to signing on to sanctions? >> reporter: that's a very good question. at this point we don't know how far along they are. we know that it's progress. we know that both sides are encouraged by this. we know there is tension between the united states and the chinese and the obama administration. and that somewhat is softening. but in the weeks ahead, there is a u.n. security council is going to meet and they're going to have those five permanent members sit down and discuss in

earnest whether or not this is going to happen, those sanctions are going to happen with iran. we know china is going to be one of the members at the table. and so far they are not as defiant as they were before. somewhat more encouraging that they're willing to cooperate. but, still, there's a long way to go before they decide that, yes, that's what they are going to do. >> suzanne malveaux for us at the white house, thank you. also coming up, we're going to be talking to david albright, former u.n. weapons inspector who has a new book out. he'll talk about how big of a threat and which nations could be at most risk. also new, investigators are trying to determine what caused a navy training jet to crash 80 miles north of atlanta. three people onboard the jet were killed. one is still missing. no one on the ground was injured. the crash did spark a small wildfire. overnight recovery crews in west virginia are getting the last of the bodies from the upper big branch mine. 20 people died in the worst mining disaster in the nation in 40 years. federal investigatesors were waiting for all of the bodies to

be recovered before heading underground. no charges for ben roethlisberger. a judge says there was not enough evidence to proper him for an alleged sexual assault at a georgia nightclub. he may, though, still face punishment by the national football league. the dow is on a roll for the first time since september of 2008, it will open above 11,000. investors anticipating solid first quarter earnings and also a loan agreement for cash-strapped greece. they think both of those helped push the dow up eight points yesterday. get in, get out as quickly as you can. mcdonald's may be synonymous with quick. but the fast food chain now wants you to linger just a little bit. the company is in the midst of remodelling the restaurants to add lounge chairs, television and also free wi-fi. they hope the changes will help them better compete with starbucks. you'll see people hanging around in mcdonald's and tap ago way on the laptop. >> it's great. city mcdonald's in new york city

are interesting to look at. but -- >> what does that mean? >> when i was doing a story -- >> let's try to decipher what you just said. >> as in running pa -- >> in other words, you want to get in threaten' get out as quickly as possible. >> they have the huge chairs. i mean they had like loungers. it looked like they had a little bar area set up. >> you like the playland. >> yeah. of course. it's so much fun to be greeted by ronald every day. anyway -- >> nice to be greeted by mcdonald's in new york. >> come see it some time. >> the oldest mcdonald's is in times square. spring is in the air and so is the pollen. if you're sneezing, you know a rough year is ahead of you. 120 is considered high on the pollen count. last week in north carolina, the pollen count was more than 3,000. >> yeah. all that water thooz go some. where has to go somewhere.

it's going to the trees as it's time to pro create. >> he's talking about the trees, not you. >> he knows a lot about. that he's in atlanta this morning. >> good morning, john. yeah, we have the spring time festivities happening outside. and with the dry air and cold temperatures and then the hot temperatures and then after the rainfall it is just a recipe for record high pollen in many spots. take a look at the map. not just the south but the mid plains and parts of the colorado rockies and the southern great lakes. everybody high right now. and rainfall, well, that would knock it down. but we don't expect to see that really until -- unless you are really further out west where the big storms are. a little bit of rain across parts of ohio and into pennsylvania. sneak into d.c. high temperatures in the upper 50s. 80 degrees in atlanta. pollen count around 2,500. that's down from over 5,000 just a week ago. so maybe the trees are starting to settle down and everyone is going to go back in their

corners and behave. >> exactly. but, boy, for allergy sufferers, you were sneezing this morning. >> i didn't sneeze -- just doing the other thing. but thanks for sharing. >> well, listen, i'll tell you this, i -- >> is there anything you were doing that we can share with the audience? >> just putting my mike on. you know, like usual. but i personally don't get allergies. and i was feeling it, doing some nose blowing myself. you're not alone. rob, thanks. in three minutes, a late-night guessing game is over. conan o'brien is back to television. we find out where conan is going to end up and when you'll be seeing him. >> and china rising, from the fish on your dinner table to the clothes on your back. we're taking a look at how that shot is changing the american business model and what it means for american workers. at 7:40, 200 million sent reser scent receptors in their nose,

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welcome back to "the most news in the morning." there is big news this morning in late night. conan o'brien is going to return to television. it's going in the fall. alaina cho working the show for us. he got the boot from the tow night show in january. lots of speculation since about where he's going to land. tell us. >> t

>> he's going to be a part of our family. >> does everybody have to bring him presents? >> i don't think so. we can go in together on a welcome gift. >> that's right. >> you remember, a lot of people thought that conan would be going to fox. many thought it was a forgone conclusion. but in a move that surprised nearly everyone, conan announced he is going to cable. the show will be on tbs. it's part of turner broadcasting, the same company that owns cnn. the show will launch in november at 11:00 p.m. it is still unnamed. it will air four days a week, not five, monday through thursday. we also know that conan will stay in los angeles. and he will own the show, too. now that ownership stake is believed to be a big reason why conan made the jump to tbs in the first place. but conan on cable? well, he joked about it in a statement he released saying, noi three months i've gone from network television to twitter to performing live in theaters and now i'm headed to basic cable. my plan is working perfectly." tv critics say if you think

about it, conan on cable really is a perfect fit. >> i think he'll have a much more free and open style than he did. you know, "the tonight show" he had to try to tailor it to a mass audience. he wasn't really getting that. here is my core audience, i'm going to speak to them. i'll going to be as wild and crazy. >> leno's ratings are up 50% over what conan was pulling. there's a caveat here. leno's audience is also about ten years older than conan's. remember, it's the younger viewers that the advertisers really covet. they generally flock to stations like comedy central. remember, it's worth pointing out that conan at 11:00 p.m. will be going head-to-head with john stewart. >> that's why we have the dvr. pick one or the other and tape the other one for later. >> that's right. >> you know, conan really built up a following, you know, protest web sites popped up

when -- >> team coco. >> that whole thing. are any of networks commenting on thinks move over there? >> no. it may be no surprise, none of them are commenting. guys, neither are his competitors, really. remember though, it did get pretty ugly towards the end. as a reminder, we thought it would be fun of conan attacking his former employer, nbc. watch. >> just coming to work in the morning now has gotten really uncomfortable. ♪ morons encompetent morons ♪ ♪ these people are morons la-di-di ♪ >> he ultimately, remember, got a $32 million settlement. he agreed to stay off the air until september. >> i guess they figure they don't have to say anything after

that. $32 million. well, conan, as we know, could technically return in september. they're holding off. he's not coming in until november. why is that? >> because of baseball. tbs carries the major league baseball playoffs. remember, those -- that's in october, right? so the thinking is that there's no reason why they should launch conan's show in september, preempt it for a month in october for the playoffs and then bring it back in november. and they also think that playoffs are a good time to promote conan's show. so, we'll have to wait and see. a lot of people saying they're glad he's back on television. a little bit of a surprise he's on tbs. but we're certainly glad he's part of our family. >> yes, absolutely. it's good to have him here. we'll have to go together and buy him a little present. you know, the one thing that is happening as a result of conan coming here is george lopez's show is bumped back on hour. >> that's right. you know what is really interesting, i was reading the blogs. lopez's show is called "lopez tonight." he goes until midnight. a lot of people are saying on the blogs saying, you know,

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now that's a good question. well, there you go. 26 minutes past the hour. your top stories four minutes away. an "a.m. original," a shift in the way that u.s. companies do business is under way. >> from dinner staples like seafood, clothing, technology, more u.s. companies are opting

for the made in china label. that is making life here less expensive. our christine romans joins us now with our week-long special report "china rising: opportunity or threat"? >> this is going on for years. some industries have completely changed how they've done business, excuse me, over the last 12 years or so. to see how china's powerful economy affects everything you do, everything you touch, look to further than your dinner plate. this is alaska soul, caught and frozen in the baring sea and unloaded in the dutch harbor. and from here -- >> most of the fish goes to china. >> reporter: where bill orr says the catch is cleaned and fileted quicker and cheaper in chinese workshops like this than in the u.s. >> the companies around the world, but most of them have fish sebt nt to china and furth

processed into filets or portions or have sauces added or breaded, packaged and sent to the united states. >> reporter: that's right, chances are the fish you order at a restaurant like this travelled some 14,000 miles. how is that even possible? because china's economic miracle of cheap labor and a government subsidized industrial base has changed everything, even the economics at your dinner plate. u.s. seafood exports to china were $82 million back in 1996. today it's $597 million. how much of that comes back to the u.s. is impossible to know in this new globalized world. from fish to textiles to steel to technology, china's rise is testing american business models. just ask google. it searched for a new market in china in 2006 but decided china's way of doing business wasn't for them. >> it didn't happen.

censorship got worse during this period. chinese government's hacking program got worse. and so google said, no. no more. >> reporter: moving the chinese search engine to hong kong just last month. >> i think google's case is a special case. most companies in china, auto companies, grain companies, banks, law firms, manufacturers of electronics and so forth do not face the dilemmas that google in particular faced. >> reporter: but could be a lure of china's potential market and its cheap manufacturing base be fading? tough new rules are starting to restrict foreign companies of all kinds which worrisome china watchers. >> the situation is changing dramatically. and china is switching over from a free market economy to a totally government controlled economy. >> reporter: and that has congress howling for tariffs on goods imported from china to help correct what it sees as an unfair advantage. >> we're going to give tough medicine. we're going to say we're going to impose the same penalty on you that will equal the

advantage you gain from manipulating the currency if you don't change. >> if we went out and slapped 30% tariff on chinese goods because we're going to punish the chinese and if it was passed in full to the person on 28,000 trying to put t-shirts on his kids, it would cause a lot of damage. >> reporter: would americans be willing to pay more goods for china if et means more jobs stay in america? that is the debate. for now bill orr says unless the economics change, he'll keep sending the work to china to keep things competitive. >> this doesn't seem practical on the face of it to be able to send your product to china, process and then back to the united states. if we needed to do it, we think the cost is probably 20% higher. >> for years while jobs were growing in this country, consumers enjoyed the cheaper import prices without much thought to how they were possible. with 10% unemployment, the obama administration is pushing back against china's currency and

industrial policies that many say favor chinese exports. critics say at the expense of millions of american jobs. president hu jintao says this week the country will not yield to external pressure on these things the we know that president brought up these things in his meeting with hu jintao just yesterday. >> currency manipulation is a big piece of the puzzle here. >> it is. so are the rules, the new laws in china that favor chinese companies and chinese trade marks. and many big international companies say wait a minute. we have cross border research and development. we have been trying toint grate china into our global strategy. if the chinese are going to start clamping down, what is that going to mean for companies that are not chinese and they're worried about the direction -- business is worried about the direction things are going. >> it's interesting. they were the ones saying that the united states was protectionist. >> that's right. >> there you have it. >> good piece this morning. >> yes. never look at my fried fish again unfortunately. time for a look at your top stories this morning. more trouble for toyota, the

parent company of lexus. consumer reports is issuing a rare don't buy warning for the 2010 lexus gx 460. the tests on the new luxury suv uncovered severe rollover risks during concerns. they're also calling on toyota to fix the problem with the lexus model quickly. in holding off on that european vacation, if the dollar forecast is true, you'll be getting a lot more bang for your buck overseas in the next year. market strategists predict a rise in u.s. interest rates will boost the dollar against the euro, dropping the euro to $1.32 by june, $1.27 by september. if you're not going to europe until next march, look at. this the euro would only be worth $1.25 u.s. so things getting better. and a summit to think about the unthinkable. president obama's nuclear security conference wraps up to day in washington. it brought leaders from 47 different countries and the focus, keeping nuclear weapons

out of the hands of rogue nations like iran and terrorist groups like al qaeda. two positive developments so far, china agreeing to work with the u.s. possibly on sanctions against iran. also the ukraine promising to get rid of nuclear bomb making materials. david albright is a former united nations weapons inspector who has written extensively about the weapons trade in his new book "pedaling peril." he joins us from washington. great to see you this morning. >> good to be here. >> what do you make of this announcement by ukraine that by the time of the next meeting on nuclear proliferation in 2012 it will have gotten rid of all of the stockpiles? >> it's very important. i mean it's been a request by the united states and other nations for ukraine to do this for years. so it's a very good sign that they finally did. because there is just too much highly enriched uranium out in the world. and it's totally unnecessary. as a civil nuclear fuel. and so it's very important for

countries to phase out their use of this material and to send it back to countries that can protect it much better. and also get rid of it. there is a way to get rid of highly enriched uranium. it's important to do so. >> the other headline that came out of this is china agreeing, i guess, to work in some way with the united states on possible iranian sanctions even though their foreign ministry said they still believe dialogue is the best way to handle it. how big of a step forward could this be on iran? >> it's very important. obama had the chance to meet with the leader of china. i mean it's -- china is a key player in it. it's resisted imposing sanctions on iran. so a good side benefit of this nuclear summit is for obama to be able to make the case personally that iran is really not complying with its obligations under the u.n. security council resolutions and it's time for pressure. and so hopefully obama was convincing and china will start to play ball.

>> we mentioned at the top of this, david, in your new book "pedaling peril," you're tracing the threat of terrorists getting their hands on nuclear materials, not nuclear bomb already constructed. the president says the biggest threat to the united states is terrorists getting their hands on components for a nuclear weapon. al qaeda has been working for 15 years to try to get one of these thingsment how great is the threat? and in your research, how diligently is al qaeda searching for the components for a nuclear bomb? >> well, all the evidence supports that al qaeda is looking to try to gather the capabilities to make a nuclear weapon. it's not easy to do. but they're learning. i mean the issue calls periodically 2009 calls to pakistani scientists, you know, give us -- help us get nuclear secrets. so they're doing the things that one would need to do to get nuclear weapons, get help from those who know, start looking around for loose nukes to be

look into black markets, can you buy it? that's why this summit is so important. we do need to secure the nuclear explosive materials much better. and it has to be done internationally. it's a little bit like bank security. al qaeda is looking for the security at the weakest bank. it's important that all countries increase the security over these materials. >> also talk about the importance of intelligence sharing, this information pipeline of where this may be happening and how all countries need to take part of that. but where do you see the biggest threats? which nations could be the most vulnerable to terrorists being able to get their hands on loose nukes? >> intelligence sharing is critical. there hasn't been enough of it between the united states and russia, between the united states and china. we need to know where those in a sense the vulnerabilities are. they don't have to be made public, of course. but we need to know so we can fix them. i mean we tend to look around

and say pakistan is a problem. because of past practices of leaking and selling our proliferating nuclear technologies. russia traditionally has been focused upon. it has so much nuclear explosive material and it's had problems. but china's also a problem. and partly just because we don't know what's going on. india also. plus, one that issue that isn't talked about much is there is a lot of separated plutonium in international commerce. it is 5:00 used as a nuclear fuel. and the amounts in commerce are expected to go way up over the next ten years. and those transports that separate plutonium can be vulnerable. it's important to increase the security over that material. if people go down that route of using very dangerous nuclear explosive materials to fuel nuclear reactors. >> all right. and do i think, david, that the summit, we're in day two of it, is going to result in anything concrete? we did see the ukrainian announcement. is this going to have any teeth

in terms of trying to hold on to that nuclear material and get it some place safe? >> i think so. this is a very technical subject. and having world leaders come together and elevate its importance and talk about it is a significant accomplishment. and what is expected to happen in this conference is that there will be agreement to do concrete steps. there will be general principles agreed upon. and then countries are going to promise to do very concrete actions like what ukraine did. plus, we're expecting this afternoon a series of announce ams from countries about what they're going to do. and so we'll stay tuned. one to watch for in particular is what the united states is going to do. what is russia going to do? i mean they have particularly the united states has the money to help a lot of countries improve their security. >> we'll be watching it closely. david albright, thanks for joining us this morning. always good to see you. >> thank you. >> thanks, david. still ahead, a new stud yoi fire up an age-old debate, to spank or not spank your kid? in 20 minutes we'll talk about the results of a new study.

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recently the transportation industry security screen procedures have been under intense scrutiny by the federal government. but amtrak believes it is using something both effective and affordable and boy it is cute, too. we take a look at amtrak's army of specialists, highly trained to sniff out dangerous explosives. >> reporter: i introduce you to my next best friend, the next generation in explosives detection. a dog's nose samples the air many times a second. this dog sniffs it for explosives. zita is called a vapor wake dog, trained to pick up the scent of explosives in the air zpid krou despite crowds and cross currents. her nose can smell tatp, tnt and other explosives in a huge space

even though a person carrying them may have passed by as much as 15 minutes earlier. the head of amtrak's canine program compares these animals to a top athlete. >> michael jordan. the reason why i say that is because michael jordan is one of the best basketball players of all time. the these vapor wake dogs i put in the same category. >> only 2% of the dogs have what it takes to be a vapor wake dog. >> they hunt and hunt and hunt and won't come back without it. >> reporter: they're introduced at an early age to slippery surfaces and a variety of environments before being spent to prisons in florida, georgia, and mississippi where inmates begin training the dogs to use their noses. back at the auburn facility, older dogs are conditioned on a souped up golf cart to handle the rigors of their future jobs. they recognize about a dozen explosives and can be trained to find additional ones in just a day or two. i take a backpack containing

explosives into a building to test a dog. i walk, sit, and walk some more. so now i'm going to hide this backpack full of smokeless powder. a minute later, ranger still in the early stages of training, tracks the explosives right to the source. >> there are certain chef that's smell a pot of stew and they say that is this type of spice. a dog walks into it and smells the whole thing and says that's c 4. >> reporter: the u.s. capitol police are just starting to use vapor wake dogs. they augmented security at spoerding sporting events but amtrak embraced them despite the $20,000 pricetag per dog n a high risk, ever changing transit environment, the dogs have advantages over machines even though they can only work for about 90 minutes at a stretch. >> there is nothing like a dog as far as mobility, as far as how quickly it can detect explosives and take us to the source of it. and the cost is basically less

than any type of technology out there. >> fascinating stuff. >> you know, you go to places like penn station in new york and you see the little things that are roaring away 24 hours a day taking in the environment to measure to see if there is any explosive residue out there or spores or anything biological or chemical. we have the same thing on four paws right there and mobile and dead accurate, too. >> and at penn station, do you see the police walking around with the german shepherds and they're doing similar things. but these dogs are amazing. they can be trained to sniff out a new scent or explosive within an hour. >> pretty cool. >> it is. >> boy are they cute, too. there is nothing cuter, there is no shot that's cuter than a dog putting its nose up to its owners. rob is going to be loalong with the forecast after the break.

47 minutes past the hour. this is usually the time when i sing. but i'll spare you. >> i didn't know that. i will have to take note. why aren't you singing? >> if there's music, i'll sometimes, you know, lip sync. >> but conan o'brien was

singing. >> what did he sing? ♪ morons nothing but morons ♪ >> see? and with that, we check in with rob marciano in atlanta. >> that is a horrible transition. you know, i was going to say i have 70 seconds for the weather cast. i'll be happy to give you 30 to sing your favorite tune. >> john has a much better voice. >> that was a nice hum there. all right. guys, a little bit of rain moving to the south and east. this is going to try to get into d.c. i think it will have some success. lesser success in philly and new york. but fully, baltimore, d.c., you'll get light rain later on this morning. heavier rain falling in parts of northeastern ohio, cleveland back through pittsburgh and western pennsylvania. detroit seeing some as well. this is fighting a strong ridge which is going to win the battle long term here. strong trough out here. cool air and the potential for seeing some thunderstorms that could become severe later on this afternoon across parts of the plains. we have heat building up across parts of iowa, colorado, kansas.

temperatures yesterday in the 70s and 80s for record-breaking highs. the winds will be ripping autopsy cross the plains and the front range of the rockies. so winds gusting 50, 60 miles an hour. maybe severe weather there and a little bit of delays at the airport. temperatures in the 50s and 60 . northeast. that's not enough to make you sing your own tune, i don't though what is. back to you. thankfully, i'm out of time. >> exactly. the cameras won't break the lenses. thanks, rob. 49 minutes after the hour.

spanking is the hot button issue. it may be ineffective and

backfire. >> they found that children that were spanked frequently at three years old, were 50% more likely to become aggressive by the age of five. joining us is katherine taylor, who co-authored the study. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> you say children were shown to be more aggressive that were spanked at three. how do you define the spanking and the as greg sieve behavior? >> we analyze data from 2500 mothers. we were able to compare reports from three different groups of mothers. we looked at mothers who reported that they had never spanked in the month prior to the interview, mothers who said they had spanked one or two times in the month before and then those mothers that said they had spanked even more frequently than that in the month prior to the interview. what we found is, as you said,

those mothers that had spanked more frequently, or the children of those mothers, that had been spanked for frequently at age three, had 50% higher odds of being aggressive by the time they were age five. i was just going to say, we simply asked them about whether or not they had spanked. then, in terms of regression, the way we looked at this is we asked about, you know, how often, how argumentative the kids were, if they were unusually loud, if they were cruel, if they bullied, teasing, those sorts of behaviors for a five yeer 5-year-old. >> you found there were other negative side effects beyond that. tell us too how you defined spanking. >> we simply asked if they had spanked the child for any sort of misbehaving in the prior month and how often they did

that. one of the key parts of the study, we were able to control for a bunch of other factors. so some of the critiques has been, well, there could be a lot of other things explaining this link between corporal punishment and later ago gress. we were able to control for the child's initial level of aggression as well as other parenting risk factors. >> your study was exclusive to spanking. i guess that could rank from a swat on the behind to a longer type of session of hitting but what about other physical roughness, like parents who might not spank but they yell at their child, their child is yanked out of a situation or they are sat down strongly in a situation. are these also actions that lead to aggressive behavior? >> well, in this particular study, what we did is we focused especially on spanking, because, as you both cited, a lot of

people are having questions of is spanking itself something that can lead to aggression or other negative outcomes. a key part of the study is that we controlled for other things you mentioned wechlt controlled for more severe acts, like shaking them, pinching them, hitting them with an object. we controlled for other parenting risk factors, like whether the mom was depressed, very stressed, had used alcohol or other substances and also for other acts of aggression in the family. >> katherine, it is hard to get a clear idea of how many parents spank their children. surveys show 35% to 90%. a recent survey found that 72% of parents say, hey, it is okay to do it. if there are all these negative side effects, why are so many parents still doing it? >> well, it's a really good

question, because what's interesting is that the study actually isn't saying anything that's very new. there has been a lot of research done on this topic. i want to encourage parents. i know parents are going to have questions about this. i want to encourage parents to go on line and look up the report on physical punishments. this is a report that summarizes a lot. this document has been endorsed by dozens of professional organizations that care about the health and well-being of children. >> we did link up the study, by the way, because i think it is important for people to look at it. one thing i want to ask you. a lot of parents have written in to you, saying, what's the discipline then? time-outs don't necessarily work. what is a parent to do to

correct bad behavior in a child without physical violence? >> well, i think it is really important for parents to know that children need safe nurturing and stable relationships and very clear guidance and discipline. i want to make sure parents understand, we are definitely not saying that children don't need discipline. children need discipline and it is -- i really, strongly encourage parents to sfepeak wi a child professional that they trust such as a pediatrician, about alternatives to spanking. all kinds of nonphysical, positive types of discipline out there. you mentioned time-out. time-out is one that if it is used correctly, if parents are taught to use it correctly and consistently, it can be very effective. teaching parents how to engage in promoting positive reinforcement and rewarding

positive behavior is extremely important. i strongly encourage firnparent talk to a pediatrician or child development expert that they trust or go to healthy children.org. >> we want to thank you for being with us. katherine taylor from the school of public health. join our conversation at cnn.com/amfix. >> top stories coming your way. stay with us. for strong bones, i take calcium.

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april 13th. i'm kiran chetry. i'm john roberts. here are the big stories we will be telling you about. an urgent warning from consumer reports magazine, don't buy the 2010 year model lexus gs-460. they call it a safety risk. it is calling on toyota, the parent company of lexus, to fix the problem fast. >> also, fewer loose nukes, one country has agreed to get rid of its stockpile as we hear dire warnings about what the world would be like if terrorists like alqaeda got their hands on the bomb. conan o'brien returning to the land of late night on our sister network tbs. the am fix blog is up and running. go to cnn.com/amfix. we will be reading your kochlts.

getting a lot of comments on the controversy over spanking. another setback for toyota. consumer reports magazine putting out an urgent warning about the company's 2010 lexus gs-460 saying the high-end suv is prone to rollovers during turns. they label it, "don't buy." nine years since consumers reports has rated a vehicle this poorly. >> when you go into a turn, if you encounter something or if the turn has a decreasing radius, when you lift off the throttle, the rear end slides out. that's a reaction that would happen to anyone driving. the vehicle should not spin like that. the vehicle should not turn out like that. the electronic stability control should intervene. in this case, it did not. >> christine romans joins us with more details on this "don't buy" rating. >> consumer reports does not do this casually. what they have found is a

rollover risk during turns in this particular model of lexus, the 2010 model, not prior models. the 2010 model of the lexus gx-460. as far as we know, no reported accidents or concerns. the problem here is that when this company, consume mr rorlr they found unexpectedly that on these turns there was a real world rollover risk. four different engineers and test drivers took a look at this and went and got another vehicle. it was not an isolated incident. the electronic stability control system was issue in both vehicles. it organizes and controls the brakes and accelerations so when you are taking a big or tilt tu tight turn, it prevents you from flipping over. if you have purchased this car already, they say be very, very careful on ramps or exit ramps and go to your dealer and demand

that the company do something. if you haven't bought this car, they say, do not buy it. no word, radio silence so far from lexus and toyota on what they plan to do to address these concerns. >> christine romans, thanks. securing the bomb world leaders meeting in washington for day two of a nuclear summit, addressing nuclear terrorist. things got off to a positive start with former soviet ukraine promising to get rid of material. barbara starr is live at the pentagon. a huge gathering of nations, 47 in all. is there a real threat? >> that's the bottom line question. it may be a huge threat. is it very real is stiistic thed be this type of nuclear attack? the president's own advisors say al qaeda has been trying to get a weapon for over a decade.

>> over the past two decades, there has been indisputable evidence that dozens of terrorist groups have actively sought some type of weapon of mass effect. relative to other such potential weapons which include biological, chemical, radiological, the consequences and impact of a nuclear attack would be the most devastating as well as the most lasting. so there is a threat out there but how could this possibly happen if it were to happen? could terrorists get ahold of some sort of stockpile that is not guarded by the company that owns it? the first problem would be getting the material and then fashioning it into some kind of device and finding a way to deliver it, if you will, to a target, exploded over a city on a military base, some mechanism to actually explode the weapon. all of those are very fundamental challenges and that's what would make it very tough for a terrorist group to

do it. there is a lot of concern that with some of that stockpile material not guarded, it could happen someday. john? barbara, which countries are the biggest threats? >> when you look at the map, that's what it comes down to. if you are going to get your hands on the stockpile, where could it come from? there are several countries that officials say cause the greatest concern. ukraine has agreed to give up its stockpile. there is a bit of good news. the usual suspects, iran and north korea, top the list of worries. pakistan, india and russia all have control on their stock piles. there is concern that the stockpile controls are really strong enough and concern that a criminal element could get its hands on those stock piles, resell it to terrorists. still, very tough for alqaeda to do it. even though they want to get their hands on nuclear material, so far, they have thankfully not made a lot of progress in doing

so. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thanks so much. the white house is denying reports that secretary of state, hillary clinton, is a candidate to replace retiring supreme court justice, john stevens. the obama administration will not say when an announcement will be made on the judicial pick. the spokesman says the president is pleased with the job hillary clinton is doing as secretary of state. the catholic church has finally forgiven the beatles. one of the last two surviving beatles, ringo starr, said, thanks, i think. >> i think the vatican, they have got more to talk about than the beatles. >> things got a little bit rough with the church back in the 1960s after john lennon said that the beatles were more popular than jesus.

>> we are going to check in with rob marciano. he is tracking the weather for us. >> good morning. a little bit of rain trying to move into the northeast. it will have limited success, i think. philly to d.c. will have the best shot of it. on the radar, you see it rolling across the allegheny and appalachians there. thunderstorms across minneapolis, moving across the north and east. severe threat across parts of the western and northern plains with windy conditions. we had winds yesterday gust over 50, 60 miles an hour. daytime highs, 80s, 50s and 60s and lower 70s elsewhere. we have been talking about the high pollen counts. jack lowe went out and gave his car a spanking with this black

felt. that is pollen there. it goes with the story of how spanking your kids is not good. they turn into bullies later on in live. if you spank your car here in atlanta, your hand is going to turn gray. >> that is a lot of pollen, though, seriously. people are certainly feeling the spring allergy season a little bit early. >> another couple of weeks and it will hopefully be over. conan o'brien is returning to late night. a show on basic cable. we have the details coming up. when i grow up,

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conan o'brien announced he will not go to fox but move to tbc. a cable channel. then, jay leno announced he will move to tbs. conan o'brien has found a new home in late night television. >> it ended with an unexpect the twist. people thought he would go to the fox network. >> a lot of people did think that conan would be going to fox. many thought it was a foregone conclusion. in a move that surprised a lot of people, conan announced yesterday he is going to cable. the show will be on tbs, part of

turner broadcasting, the same company that owns cnn. the show will plaun much in november at 11:00 p.m. it is still unnamed and will air four days a week, monday through thursday. it will be produced out of los angeles. he will stay there. he will also own the show too. that ownership stake is believed to be a big reason why he made the jump to tbs but conan on cable. he joked about it and said, listen carefully, in three months, i have gone from network television to twitter to performing live in theaters and now i'm headed to basic cable. my plan is working perfectly. >> he will have a much more free and open style. "the tonight show," he had to try to tailor it to a massive audience. i think he can say, here is my

core audience, i am going to speak to them and be as wild and crazy and creative as i can be. >> speaking of jay leno, his ratings are up 50% over what conan was pulling. his audience is about ten years older than conan's. it is the younger viewers that advertisers covet. at 11:00 p.m., conan will be going head to head with jon stewart and they kind of go after the same viewers, the younger viewers. >> nbc saying anything about this. >> they aren't. probably no surprise there, guys. remember, it did get pretty ugly toward the end with the epic fight with nbc. as a reminder, we pulled some clips of conan tacking his former employer. take a look. >> just coming to work in the morning now has gotten really uncomfortable.

♪ morons, incompetent morons, these people are morons ♪ >> he may have gotten the last laugh. he got a $32 million payoff for nbc and agreed to stay off the air until september, which is why you have seen him on twitter. >> i think he sang the moron song better. >> he doesn't have a bad voice. >> he is waiting until november to come back. >> tbs will be airing the major league baseball playoffs. they decided it didn't make sense to launch his show in september, preempt it in october and bring it back in november. they thought it would be a good idea to promote his show during the playoffs. >> he has time to come up with lots of new material. >> he has 3,000 hours of demo tape as he likes to say. >> there you go. thanks so much, alina. now, his new tbs late night partner, joe lopez, will be

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office, cut costs and cut deep. they say they need to cut salaries and clothes locations and slash costs. they have lost nearly $12 billion in the past three years because of other people using e-mails, texts and online video chatting instead of sending letters. >> evite too. mcdonald's may be synonymous with quick service. they want you to linger a little longer. they are in the midst of remodeling restaurants, adding lounge chair, television, free wi yi. what does that sound like? a little like starbucks. they hope to compete. their coffee is already competing. >> of course, j.k. rolling wrote her famous books on her laptop

at mcdonald's. have you ever wondered all those other people on their laptops in starbucks, what are they doing? >> they are probably not as productive as j.k. rowling. they wish they were. do you want to know if china has changed american business? look at your dinner table. that will give you an answer. we are talking about russian adoptions. people who had adoptions in the pipeline are concerned. what does it sneen what about the larger concerns for people that are adopting older children? what do you do if you find that they have behavior issues? we are going to be talking about all of that coming up. 22 minutes past the hour. national car rental knows i'm picky.

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♪ welcome back to the most news in the morning. 25 minutes past the top of the hour. first, an a.m. original. a shift in the way that u.s. companies do business is now underway. >> from dinnertime staples like seafood and technology, more u.s. companies are opting for the made in china label. that is making life here less expensive. christine romans joins us with our week-long report, "china rising, opportunity or threat." >> it has been going on for ten

years. the american consumer has benefited from the huge rise. to see how it affects you in just about every way, look no further than your dinner plate. >> reporter: this is alaska sole caught and frozen in the bering sea. from here. >> most of the fish goes to china. >> reporter: where bill or, president of signature seafood says his catch is cleaned and fileted quicker in chinese workshops than in the u.s. >> we will sell it to companies around the world. most of them have the fish sent to china and further processed into filets or portions,have sauces breaded or packaged and sent back to european. >> it turns out the fish you ordered traveled some 14,000 miles. how is that even possible, because china's economic miracle

of cheap labor hand a government subsidized industrial base has changed everything, even the economics on your dinner plate? u.s. seafood exports today are a $597 million. how much comes back to the u.s. is impossible to know. china's rise is testing american business models. just ask google. it searched for a new market in china in 2006 but decided china's way for business wasn't for them. >> censor ship got worse during this period. chinese government's hacking program got worse. google said, no more. >> reporter: moving their chinese search engine to honk go

hong kong just last month. >> manufacturer of electronic goods do not face what google faced. >> reporter: could the allure of the market and cheap manufacturing base be fading. tough new rules are starting to restrict foreign companies of all kinds. >> the situation is changing dramatically and china switching over from a me market economy to a totally government-controlled economy. >> that has congress howling for tariffs on goods imparted from china to help correct what it sees as an unfair advantage. >> we are going to get tough medicine. we are going to impose the same penalty on you that will equal the advantage you gain from manipulating the currency if you don't change. >> if it were actually passed through in full to the person that is frying to put t-shirts on his kids, it would cause a lot of damage. >> reporter: would americans be willing to pay more for goods if it means more jobs would stay in

america? that in a nutshell is the debate. for now, bill orr says, he will still keep sending his work to china to keep things competitive. >> it doesn't seem practical to be able to send your product to china to be processed and back to the united states. if we needed to do it ashore, we think that cost is probably 20%, 25% higher. >> for years while jobs were growing in this country, consumers enjoyed those cheaper import prices without much thought to how they were possible. with nearly 10% unemployment, people are starting to think about it again. the obama administration is pushing back against china's currency and industrial policy that favor chinese exports over u.s. exports. critics say at the expense of american jobs. president hu jintao says that his country will not yield to external pressure. >> it is amazing to think with all that transport it is still 25% cheaper. in terms of saving american

jobs, if you were to do the processing in alaska or somewhere else, would people be willing to spend the extra money knowing they are saving american jobs. >> and are you sfending the money any way by unemployment benefits, programs for retraining, the des sa mags of the manufacturing base? are consumers pay mortgage and american government is paying more. >> therefore, we are paying more taxes. >> it is so fascinating to see how it has grown up over the last 10, 15 years. now, with 10% unemployment, people are looking sharply at some of these policies. i want to be clear that there are some policies in china that american businesses are starting to be concerned about. they are called indinlg nous innovation policies. they have put in controls so that chinese companies are favored over multi-national and american companies. that's a concern here as well. >> interesting.

it is generating a lot of conversation. >> in a bizarre kind of way, it is are sort of like we are sending all the business to china so they can buy our debt because we are losing all these jobs to china and having to pay mo more money in unemployment benefits. keep everything right here. thanks, christine. >> coming up tomorrow, we will be talking more about this subject "china rising, opportunity or threat" shanghai to beijing. a colossal middle class is emerging. is the sky the limit for china or a growth bubble about to burst? time for this morning's top stories. major development coming from the sidelines of the nuclear summit in washington. the white house says china has agreed to work on new sanctions against iran instead of standing in the way of them. president obama met privately with china's president, hu jintao. they are removing the body of the last of the miners killed in

that explosion. 29 men died last week. it was the worse mine disaster we have seen in 40 years. federal investigators were waiting for all of the bodies to be recovered. they are now beginning their investigation underground. did you just buy that shiny new lexus gs-460 suv. ul want to hear what consumer reports magazine has to say about it. there it is. it is a rollover problem that happens when you are making a turn, the back end skids out. the problem is so serious the group is urging consumers not to buy the suv. they are calling on toyota, the parent company of lexus, to fix the problem for existing customers and fix it fast. police in tennessee say they have not been able to talk with torre hanson, the woman at the senator of an adoption controversy. she sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to russia. the local sheriff says that the woman's attorney told them she won't talk unless a charge is

filtd. this case is grabbing headlines across the nation and situations like this are not as rare as you would think. for more on this, we bring in dr. ronald federici. he is a psychologist that specializes in adopted children. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> in this case of this woman, torre hanson, saying it became too difficult and dangerous for her to parent this child and she sid, she didn't wish to anymore. what she did, many are slamming as the wrong thing, sending a seven--year-old child back on a plane to russia with a note. you say these types of difficulties in doopting children and families and getting them to find a healthy environment together can sometimes be quite difficult. how big of a problem is this? >> well, this is quite a large problem. i am a developmentist, i see children who have all types of developmental disabilities. children from eastern european adoption areas have been raised

in some of the most deprived, damaging conditions. abuse, neglect. they have been without a family. coming out of these orphanage settings, these children are undersocialized, very impulsive. coming to a new home is almost a noxious stimuli. they have no database on how to function normally. they will act undersocialized and violent. it is a common occurrence for an older child, especially a 7-year-old to act this way. the problem is that many american families who adopt go in there with this ideal is stick logic that things will be fine in a good home when it is a very difficult match because the child doesn't have the skills, knowledge or database to function in a normal environment. >> you say you estimate about 4,000 overseas kids are thrown awar away into the u.s. foster care system. you talk about a cardiac surgeon

and a therapist, financially stable and seemingly very educated and they, basically, what, left their child in your office? >> i have been in practice 24 years. there has been at least in the rough statistics, almost 4,000 children who have been disrupted back to the country of origin or mostly in our domestic foster care system. families who have not been able to care for the child because of these same behavioral developmental issues they were not trained for. i have picked up children at baggage carousels, left in my office. people have left them in the hotels in the countries of origin. this is not the first time where a child has been sent back to russia or eastern block. this was the first time a child was sent back unattended with just a tag. i have had several families who have sent them back on their own, including back to china, eastern europe. they have escorted them, left them back in the orphanage. it is not an unusual situation. our u.s. foster care and social service, including some of these

special psychiatric programs are filled with many children who have been disrupted for these same reasons. >> it is heartbreaking to think about. these children that for whatever reason were not able to be with their birth parents, on top of that going through all of this only to be again dropped back into the system. what can be done, if anything, to better prepare these families, these parents and also when you speak about what they were -- what situation they started in? is there any way to make that better? >> well, first of all, in these orphanage settings, they do the best they can with very meager resources. the united states adoption agencies that work with these countries should absolutely and unequivocally provide more information, records information, training and education to the families to be better prepared. there is international adoption centers all over the united states that are available to train these parents. it is often not filtered to the families and many of them flounder, like this hanson case, where she had nowhere to go but she was right down the road from

vanderbilt which has a very good adoption center. the international adoption agencies in the united states which are not regulated by any governing body, they have a group collectiveness that is under the hague treaty to provide training, many of them do, most don't. there is not enough training for the parents. it's very important that families receive extensive training in the effects of institutional care on these children prior to adoption and have immediate support after adoption to learn the concept of deinstitutionalizing a traumatized child correctly and safely so the child meshes in with the family slowly but more safely. the families do not have a chaotic situation when a child comes out undersocialized. >> you are saying there is hope for these kids? >> there is absolutely hope for these children. there is a huge amount of specialists, of us that work with internationally adopted children. there are centers being developed more and more. also, to the least amount of support services in the united

states is better than none. many families are so overwhelmed, they don't know where to go and they give up and move on and turn around to adopt again. there there is a huge problem in our system of international adoption. >> this is certainly bringing that issue to the forefront. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. 38 minutes after the hour. what has got our viewers riled up this morning? mostly, it is all about spanking. we will check in with our live blog coming up next. then, apolo anton ohno is going to be here. he will not be skating for us but he will talk about his efforts to keep young people away from the perils of drinking. stay with us. if it's not there are over 50 international awards we'd better give back. the jaguar xf.

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♪ 41 minutes after the hour. reading some of your comments at our blog. a lot of people talking about the spanking. some saying you shouldn't spank your child. it has been illegal in sweden since 1979. california has a law against it. there air lot of people saying,

it is not such a big deal. david g. writes, i'm not a parent. as a child, i was spanking. i'm a 25-year-old man with no history of violence, no grudge against my parents, i graduated top of my class and had a good career. spanking isn't the issue. it's letting your kids control you. >> another study came out sayinging that children who were spanked frequently at age three by the time they are five are 50% more likely to become aggressive. most of the comments don't seem to myrrh roar the opposite. i found that people who were not spanked, there is nothing wrong with it as long as you don't abuse your child. >> let's see if we can get all wait down to the bottom. we have a lot of comments in the last little while about this. nothing wrorng with spanking. another comment here. here is one from jenny. for me, it is sad we have to

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this will pose the possibility of seeing some thunderstorms that may be damaging later on. certainly, a lot of heat involved here. record-breaking heat in sioux city. winds as well. we had winds gusting to over 60 miles an hour in parts of utah. the rain that came into california the past couple of days, caused some problems across the bay area. dramatic pictures from a water rescue there. three people fell into this canal in walnut creek. one of them was able to be dramatically rescued. the other two, not so lucky. dangerous times out there in california. it looks to be a little more tranquil today. if you are traveling, d.c., detroit and cleveland will see some rains. delays there potentially and ft. lauderdale, some winds. 82, kansas city. 62, denver. 59. light rain in new york. 81 degrees and pollen remains to be a problem along atlanta and the south. john and kiran, back up to you. coming up next, a cnn

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♪ welcome back. from "dancing with the stars" to skating for oat limb pick gold, there is not a challenge our next guess the can't conquer. >> he is on a campaign to stop underaged drinking and start getting kids interested in healthy lifestyles. >> the most decorate td u.s. athlete in the history of the u.s. olympics, speed skater, apolo anton ohno. thanks for being here. we watched you in the olympics

and you were fabulous. congratulations on that. now, you are taking on another big challenge. this issue of underaged drinking in kids. tell us about the campaign you are working on and why you decided to take up this cause. >> since the olympic games, i have partnered up with this organization and we have been touring across the united states speaking in middle schools and middle school students specifically about the dangers of underaged drinking. trying to promote healthy, active lifestyles and more so just educating kids in general about giving them the confidence to be able to go out there and make active, healthy decisions, make the right decision. kids who are already facing challenges. i can relate. my middle school years were a little bit of a struggle. my relationship with my father and decisions i had to make kind of led me to sports and helped save my life from a path that wasn't for me. this is something i'm very passionate about. we are encouraging students and parents to go is to

asklistenlearn.com and find out more and more importantly about me interacting with these kids. today, i am going to speak at a school, at a middle school and interact wth ki interacting with these kids, they can see me in person and hear my voice and know that i have been through a lot of the struggles they have been through in the past and help them get on the right path. middle school students are at that age where kids are still so moldable. if we can reach these kids and reiterate these positive messages, it is going to further empower these kids to make better decisions in the future of our country. >> it is great to have a role model like yourself coming out there in person and doing it. you talked about the importance of reaching these kids before they develop ingrained habits if you wait until high school, maybe it is too late. you also spoke about sport being your way out of those problems in your early adolescent years. when you go into these middle schools to talk to these kids, you bring a game along with you. what's the game?

>> well, it is kind of a very cool interactive game. it basically allows kids to play. it is like a video game. instead of just sitting there with your fingers, this he have to be active. so they are running in place or jumping. they are moving around all while they have to answer some questions that come with the game. to make healthy decisions with food, nutrition, alcohol-related questions. so it is a fun, easy way for kids to basically learn how to empower their bodies and their brains famt. >> what's the theory behind getting them active while they are playing this game? >> there is a lot of research coming out and has in the past that shows that your brain performs at its peak when you are most active. as an athlete, on the days i had a rest day or off day, i felt a little sluggish. post-olympic games, the days i

don't have time to work out, i feel the least productive. if i can just fit in 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, i'm working at a different pace. >> that's cool. they are learning and moving. i want to ask you about your success with "dancing with the stars," because the show recently has overtaken "american idol." you won it, by the way, in 2007. >> yes. >> does being an athlete make you a much better dancer even if that is not how you were professionally trained? >> i think being an olympic athlete helped. i can't say. the show was much different than you can ever realize. i didn't know what i was getting myself into. more so, it is about the mind-set. the challenges that the show forced me into. more importantly, i had to come out and bring my emotion i had inside of me and show it and display it to the audience.

i don't want to dance in front of my high school graduation class, let alone 20, 25 million people. it is a fantastic show to be a part of it. i would do it again in a heart beat. behind the scenes, there ace lot more that goes on than people realize. it has a lot of good values. for me personally, i learned a lot about myself. it was fantastic. >> a lot of people get hurt on the show, because they are training at a different level and you are an olympic athlete. what about kate gosselin, the mom that everybody loves to hate, the one who had eight children. she has eight total. what do you think about her out there dancing? >> the fun thing about this show is that it brings personalities from all walks of life. it kind of showcases their personalities and the fans actually get to have a chance to vote and be a part of the show. that's why these shows are so successful. whether it is kate or evan lysacek or chad ochocinco, every

season, they have a new cast and crew. i had a lot of fun with those guys at production. it feels like a team when you are there. i'm excited. i have fun watching the show. i try to catch it when i can. >> apolo, thanks. good to see you. >> nice talking to you had to. we are going to take a quick break. 57 minutes past the hour. ♪ hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? i'm trying to shrink them. i lost weight and now some clothes are too big. how did you do it? simple stuff. eating right and i switched to whole grain. whole grain... [ female announcer ] people who eat more whole grain tend to have a healthier body weight. multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 calories per serving. multigrain cheerios. try new chocolate cheerios with a touch of delicious chocolate taste in every bite.

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